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Iella Wessiri Antilles was a Corellian woman, CorSec agent and Rebel spy during the early years of the Rebellion. She served as a New Republic Intelligence agent and later married Wedge Antilles.
Biography
Iella joined the Corellian Security Force in 1 BBY.[1] Later she partnered with Corran Horn for two years,[1] acting as a mentor to the headstrong young officer, and also worked with veteran investigator Gil Bastra. Wessiri and Horn foiled several kidnapping attempts, including ones made on Siolle Tinta and Wynssa Starflare (although it wasn't until years later that they learned Starflare's true identity). After a harrowing raid on a glitterstim den, she and Corran had nearly slept together. However, Kirtan Loor—the Imperial Liaison officer—took them in for debriefing, and when they saw each other again, the moment had passed.
Corran learned that Kirtan Loor was planning to have them arrested on trumped up charges, so he, Gil Bastra, Iella Wessiri, and Iella's husband Diric Wessiri, made plans to escape. Corran escaped as Loor was planning on having him murdered. Diric and Iella Wessiri escaped to Coruscant.
On Coruscant, Iella joined the Rebellion as an intelligence operative, sometimes performing deep undercover work for months at a time. In 7 ABY, she assisted Rogue Squadron in its undercover mission to retake Imperial-occupied Coruscant from Ysanne Isard's regime.[2]
Iella and Diric were often separated due to work. Diric was in fact a sleeper agent, captured and brainwashed by Isard during his confinement on the hidden Imperial prison facility Lusankya. While Iella was escorting former Imperial Intelligence officer Kirtan Loor into Republic custody, the two were attacked by an Imperial assassin, who killed Loor before Iella shot him. Tragically, she realized it was actually Diric, who thanked her with his dying breath for releasing him from Isard's control.[1] In 9 ABY, Iella was able to extract justice by fatally shooting Isard during the Rogues' struggle with Imperial admiral/warlord Delak Krennel.[3]
Iella after her marriage to Wedge Antilles.
During the Rogues' mission to Coruscant, Wessiri and Wedge Antilles developed a deep mutual attraction. Though she admitted her love for Diric was not passionate, her sense of loyalty prevented her from pursuing a relationship with the Alliance hero.[2] Later, during the Zsinj campaign after Diric's death, the two began dating when duty assignments converged on Coruscant. Their relationship stalled out due to conflicting careers, only to reignite during a mission to bring the Outer Rim planet Adumar into the New Republic. Wedge proposed before their time on Adumar was over.[4]
By the time of Luke Skywalker's marriage to Mara Jade, it was revealed the two had been married for some time and had two daughters, Syal and Myri.[5] Iella's career with New Republic Intelligence following the Adumar operation is so far undocumented. She retired after the Galactic Civil War, but, along with Wedge, came out of retirement during the Yuuzhan Vong War. She and Wedge both retired after the Liberation of Coruscant.
Confederation-Alliance War
In early 40 ABY, Iella, Wedge, and their youngest daughter, Myri, were living on Coronet, Corellia. During her retirement, Iella began grooming Myri to follow in her footsteps as an intelligence agent. When tensions escalated between the Galactic Alliance and Corellia, Iella and her husband were forced to come out of retirement. Wedge openly sided with Corellia after a failed attempt by the Galactic Alliance to keep him out of the war.[6] Iella, on the other hand, continued to work as an intelligence agent.[7]
Following Wedge's resignation from the Corellian military, Iella, Myri, Corran and Mirax rescued him from several CorSec officers attempting to assassinate him. The group then fled to the Errant Venture where they reunited with old friends. While on the ship, Iella and Myri worked as dealers in the gambling area in an effort to gather intelligence.[7]
Iella began analyzing holonews and distributing her conclusions to Booster Terrik, Talon Karrde, her husband, and, when Wedge began working as his military advisor, Luke Skywalker. During the Battle of Centerpoint Station, she accompanied a Jedi strike team on the shuttle Reveille in infiltrating the Anakin Solo, and joined Han and Leia Organa Solo in rescuing Allana while Luke, Saba Sebatyne, and Ben Skywalker provided a diversion for Jacen by attacking him on the bridge. She escaped with the rest of the strike team on the Millennium Falcon, piloted by Jagged Fel.[8]
Appearances
- X-wing Rogue Squadron: Family Ties
- X-wing: Rogue Squadron (First mentioned)
- X-wing: Wedge's Gamble (First appearance)
- X-wing: The Krytos Trap
- X-wing: The Bacta War
- X-wing: Isard's Revenge
- I, Jedi
- X-wing: Starfighters of Adumar
- Vision of the Future (Mentioned only)
- Star Wars: Union
- Dark Tide II: Ruin (Mentioned only)
- Enemy Lines I: Rebel Dream
- Enemy Lines II: Rebel Stand
- The Unifying Force (Mentioned only)
- Betrayal
- Exile
- Fury
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External links
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